sports pro_athlete id_criteria - freebase-schema/freebase GitHub Wiki

##Identity Criterion for Athlete type

• name_match: There is a name_match if the names or aliases of the athletes match on both the sources. Sometimes athlete names may have initials, prefix, maiden names, nick names. These should be taken into consideration.

• team_match: There is a team_match if at least one of the athlete teams listed in Freebase property /sports/pro_athlete/teams (Teams) matches with the teams on the other source. Very frequently the team information in Freebase topics may come from properties in different sports schemas (such as /basketball/basketball_player/team, /american_football/football_player/current_team, /soccer/football_player/current_team)

• hall_of_fame_match: There is a hall_of_fame_match if at least one of the athlete hall of fame information (hall kind and year) matches with the hall of fame information on the other source.

• awards_match: There is an awards_match if at least one of the received awards (including country/association, category and years) or nominations matches with the awards or nominations on the other source.

Here are some typical patterns for determining identity of two athletes:

1. name_match and hall_of_fame_match. (Example 1)
2. name_match and team_match. (Example 2)
3. name_match and awards_match. (Example 3)

Identity features, Patterns and Examples for following types are also applicable for establishing identity relationships in type /sports/pro_athlete:

• /people/person type identity criteria .
• types for different kind of sports persons schema such as /basketball/basketball_player, /american_football/football_player, /tennis/tennis_player.

Pattern 1 Example 1: Permalink Here the names of the athletes and their Hall of Fame information match on both the sources. Hence the athletes are identical.

Pattern 2 Example 2: Permalink Here the names of the athletes and their teams match. Hence the athletes are identical.

Pattern 3 Example 3: Permalink Here the names of the athletes and several of the awards received match on both the sources. Hence the athletes are identical.